ship fever
See also: ship-fever
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
It was once common in the crowded conditions on ships.
Noun
- A form of typhus fever.
- 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 21, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:
- "No fear of scurvy or ship fever this voyage. What with the ship's surgeon and this other doctor, our only danger will be from drug or pill."